`Blacke`s Magic` Moves Opposite `Dynasty`

January 8, 1986|By Bill Kelley, Staff Writer

The two-hour premiere of Blacke`s Magic last Sunday easily won its time period (opposite ABC`s The Defiant Ones and the standard CBS lineup), corraling more than 30 percent of the viewing audience. Tonight at 9 (WSVN-Ch. 7, WPTV-Ch. 5), it moves to its regular time slot, where NBC hopes it will steal some viewers away from ABC`s Dynasty. Hal Linden stars as Alexander Blacke, a retired magician who turns amateur sleuth, and Harry Morgan is his con man father (``semiretired,`` quips Morgan). The series was created by Peter S. Fischer and the writing-producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, who also supply CBS with the hit series Murder, She Wrote.